episode_0017

January 24, 187, Baekyang Dormitory.

“Magpie Magpie Lunar New Year was yesterday~

Our New Year’s Day, oh! always! this! they say! Yo!”

Hwayoung, singing a children’s song composed in the 20th century, proved once again that this is the worldview of Korean novels.

Walking at the front of the group, she holds a pot in her hand from which white steam is leaking.

“Miss Hwayoung.”

“Yes, Vice President?”

“Singing so loudly in someone else’s dormitory is a bit…”

Hwayoung looked around to see if she was a little aware of the vice president’s words.

In fact, glares poured out from the rooms next to the hallway.

Most students in other dorms return home for winter break.

Black Swan has no reason not to go home as long as the dormitory awareness is minimal anyway, and international students miss their hometown a lot.

Rather than living in a dormitory with nobles, he would rather spend his vacation in a mansion, receiving special treatment, and resting well.

Cheongryong goes home and prepares for the next semester through tutoring and private study.

Only Baekyang has nowhere to go, so she stays in the dormitory even during vacation.

Well, the person receiving the sick visit now doesn’t have anywhere to go, so that’s not the case.

Cleo looked around and asked Tangaroa a question.

“Chairman, where is your room?”

“Single room at the end of hallway 6, dormitory.”

“Oh, that’s it.”

Unlike other dormitories, Baekyang Dormitory, which accommodates 300 people, is a one-story building.

A regular hexagonal building larger than the other three dormitories combined.

Each rider is assigned a hallway, and there are 10 five-person rooms in the hallway.

The six hallways are completely equal, so there is no need to move to a better hallway just because you advance in grade.

When the 5th grade graduates and the hallway becomes empty, the 0th grade enters the empty hallway.

Baekyang pursues such thorough uniformity.

The only flaw in its formal beauty is that single room.

Has it been there from the beginning? Or did it come about when the Crown Princess was drawn to Baekyang?

As I thought about that, I shook my head.

What are you thinking right now? If you think about it properly!

Are you crazy to hold the imperial princess in your arms and make her lie down on the sofa?

All you have to do is wake him up, gently support him, and lay him down on the sofa…

I really don’t know what I was thinking at that time.

However, the chairman’s body was so cold, and the collapsed figure… It stimulated the protective instinct.

I was mesmerized by the profile of his face pressed against the desk, and it wasn’t until I was hit by the cold wind without my coat that I came to my senses.

Vice President, couldn’t you have stopped me when I did something like that?

I poured out my resentment towards Tangaroa.

How do you see the president’s face now…

“Chairman. We are here.”

“Come in.”

After receiving permission, Cleo carefully opened the door.

“Chairman! Happy New Year!”

“Thank you. Collock.”

The chairman was coughing while lying in bed, as if he really had a cold.

Everyone said their goodbyes and went inside.

I didn’t dare make eye contact and only asked how he was doing.

The princess’s room was only slightly larger than my single room in the Black Swan dormitory.

A single bed, a desk/dining table, a bookshelf, and a closet were all the household items.

There were no other decorations or hobby items.

The only privilege of this single room is that you can see the great lake outside the window.

Hwayoung carefully placed the pot on the table.

The chairman tried to get up to greet us, but Hwayoung made her lie down again.

“You have a cold, but you shouldn’t wake up!

Today, eat rice cake soup and get a good rest.”

“Tteokguk?”

The pot was opened, and the smell of delicious meat broth filled the room.

“Today is Park Dal-guk’s first day of the new year!

In Bakdalguk, you don’t gain one year on your birthday, but you gain one year when you all eat rice cake soup together on New Year’s Day.

If you eat warm soup, your cold will get better quickly.”

Hwayoung took out a bowl and filled it with five bowls of rice cake soup, then took out the fried rice cakes from the bag she had prepared.

When I saw that, it reminded me of my past life and something moved me.

Eggs, meatballs, and seaweed…

Hmm. When you add seaweed to rice cake soup, it has a strange texture.

“You can eat it by adding the prepared zidane in moderation!”

“Ah, I’ll leave Kim Zidane out. If it gets mushy because of the soup, it won’t taste good.”

Oops!

The four people all looked at me.

“Coleman County. Have you ever eaten rice cake soup?”

“Uh. No, I’ve never tried it.”

Ah, I made another mistake. I should just say that I have tried it before.

“Mr. Coleman. You’ve never eaten it, so how do you know that seaweed becomes mushy and tasteless?”

“Hmm… I just… just look at it and it doesn’t look delicious!”

“Coleman County. Basically, you put everything in rice cake soup and eat it. It’s delicious when you add seaweed!”

“No… I just don’t want to eat something weird like black paper.”

Third mistake. Why are you like this today?

There’s no way that crazy proto-ancient professional would miss this opportunity!

As expected, the vice president sighs.

“You are so diverse.

Is it a habit to look at traditional food from another country and criticize it as something strange?”

“Coleman County. Were you a coward who was afraid of new foods?”

Who wouldn’t say they’re a team of plastic surgeons? Hwayoung and Tangaroa beat me with perfect combination play.

“Enough teasing Mr. Coleman. By the way, there are only three chairs.”

Cleo! I believed it!

At the clerk’s point, Tangaroa and Hwayoung also turned their eyes away from me and counted the number of chairs at the table.

“That’s right. Even if the Chairman eats while lying down, there are three chairs so one person cannot sit.”

“Sorry. I had to prepare.”

“No. Just one person can stand and eat.”

“Who?”

At the chairman’s question, Hwayoung and Tangaroa looked at me at the same time.

“Of course.”

“You’re a picky eater, right?”

ha.

While everyone else was sitting comfortably eating rice cake soup, I was alone, leaning against the wall and drinking soup.

The only consolation to me is that the rice cake soup was quite delicious.

The bone marrow must have been cooked properly, and the deep umami flavor that could be felt even without MSG was excellent.

“Coleman.”

The chairman, who was looking at me, got up, leaned against the wall, and knocked on the empty space on the bed.

“Sit here.”

“Shoe.. Chairman. How-”

“I told you to sit down. It’s uncomfortable to see if you stand like that.”

I sat down in the small space hesitantly.

This time, my body wasn’t in contact with the president, but the distance was enough to feel her breath.

And for a moment the room was filled only with the sound of clattering spoons.

About half way through the rice cake soup, Chairman Lilac said as if throwing it away.

“So, did you enjoy my body?”

It was fortunate that the rice cake was sticky. Otherwise, I would have spit it out straight from my mouth.

“…Colman County?”

“Mr. Coleman?”

I desperately waved my hands and made an excuse.

“That’s not it!

I just helped the Chairman because he was sleeping in the cold wind yesterday!”

” According to Tangaroa, he hugged me and laid me down on the sofa, lol.”

The chairman makes fun of me with a sly smile.

Hwayoung and Cleo took turns looking at me and the chairman with their mouths wide open, then turned their necks to Tangaroa as if asking for confirmation.

But for some reason, the vice president looked a little bit upset.

He awkwardly avoided the gaze of the two first-year girls and then threw them away.

“…Yes. That’s right.”

“It’s a shame. If I was awake-”

“I lost my mind for a moment!”

I lowered my head as if I could reach the bowl of rice cake soup.

“Sorry! How dare you treat Her Highness the Crown Princess like that!

But I definitely had no dark intentions! I was just worried about the Chairman’s health!”

“Did you have any dark intentions?”

“Yes!”

silence.

Everyone in the single room looked at the chairman’s lips.

She thought for a moment as she pounded the rice cake soup with her spoon, but quickly returned to her usual gentle smile.

“I guess so. I’m not saying anything either.

If I had just stayed awake, I would have had such an amazing experience and it would have been great, that’s what I was trying to say.

So, Coleman-”

“Yes! I will completely forget it!”

phew. I barely survived.

I’m really glad that the chairman is an easy-going person who doesn’t care about things like this.

“…

…

okay! Anyway, thanks to Coleman, I didn’t get frostbite and ended up with a cold, but that’s how I put it.

So let’s just forget about it, cheer up, eat rice cake soup, and let’s all work hard.”

With the president’s words as an opportunity, the student council returned to its usual bustle.

Feeling relieved, I ate the rice cake soup until the last drop.

But I feel a bit bad when Vice President Tungaroa looks at me and the Chairman with pitiful eyes…

What do you think? Things like that happen, too. Because he was originally such a twisted human being, no, he was a platypus.

“I enjoyed it.”

“I ate well.”

“It was a good meal.”

“It was a good meal.”

“It was a good meal!”

When the meal was over, Hwayoung put the pot and dishes back into the bag she had brought with her.

Just as everyone was getting ready to leave, the chairman called me.

“Ah, Coleman.”

She pointed to my coat hanging on a hanger.

“Coat, thank you. It was cold, right? Going to the dormitory without a coat.”

“No. It doesn’t take long. And…”

I patted the coat I came with.

“Because there are two coats. I wore a coat when I came here.”

“Really? Then…”

The chairman tried to say something, but then closed his mouth.

Her face turned red, as if she had a fever again, and she snuggled into the blanket.

“Then?”

“No. Nothing. Coat, take it…”

“Yes. Rest comfortably.”

I tried to leave the single room, but Vice President Tangaroa raised his hand and said.

“I have something to talk with the chairman, so you guys go out first.”

“I have nothing to say, so get out.”

“You must have something to say.”

“I don’t have any, so get out.”

What’s going on? Did you two fight?

The vice president clicked his duck’s beak as if he was not satisfied and left the room.

After leaving Baekyang Dormitory and walking for about 10 minutes, I came to a fork in the road.

The Vice President and Cleo went straight to the Blue Dragon Dormitory, and Hwayoung and I turned left to the Black Swan Dormitory.

Just as we were about to part ways, the vice president tapped me and put his hand on my shoulder.

“Why are you doing that?”

“…Do your best. You stupid bastard.”

“Yes?”

“Oh, really…”

Tangaroa grumbled and headed towards the Blue Dragon dormitory, leaving me dumbfounded.

He’s a really nasty guy, really.

Take care of that, Grumpy Senpai!